Spore - Galaxy Ambience

Music that plays in a sweet spot zoom level in the space stage.

Uncountable worlds drift by, and no matter how hard you try you'll never see them all.

My unrelated worldbuilding website:

[xaviertyack]

People who grew up on this game are ascended

[railroach]

this game deserves a lot more. it has been literally my childhood. im so sad that EA dumped it.

[puppygaming]

Everyone is talking about how this brings back childhood memories, I still play this underrated gem.

[theloweffortchannel]

Those "reverse" noises really adds an... ethereal feel, like the implications of uncountable civilizations transmitting messages into deep space, and your ship, hanging around in the upper plane of a solar system, is picking them up and filing them off into it's backlog.

[Judge_-eejn]

We could never find out about all the worlds in this galaxy, but we didn't need to.

The Galaxy was just beautiful.

[MichaelRainboy]

When I was still a teen with no real friends, this game and the creatures in the universe were the best social experience back then. So wish it could be reborn again into something amazing.

[FaithfulFumoFan]

This game had an ethereal feeling that hasn't been replicated to this day.

[draglisdadrag]

This song brings back memories I’ve never had

[bearfungusincident]

Ah. Here we are.


I remember getting Spore a while back. Downloading it via disc on my mom's Toshiba laptop that was nearly broken... Fun times.
Here's to hoping I'll get back to this game eventually. The Pinching Tadpole race and Fungal Hammertail race deserve another run.

[lady_deaths_head]

This song makes me cry. Only good memories with this game.

[Дискорд-цт]

Знаете, я не знаю почему рекомендации ютуба привели меня сюда, но я очень много времени провёл в spore и эта музыка... Она прекрасна, хотя нет! Это слово не выражает всё то чувство... Настольгии, которое я ощущаю... Спасибо тебе рекомендация ютуба, ты сделала мой день таким... Таким...

[TheEnderGuardianFR]

I don't know why but right here, right now, listening to this makes me feel like sharing, so here goes:

I have such strong ties with this game. I discovered it at 8yo, being mesmerized at my dad playing the demo in which you could only play the Cell Stage, and later asking him to try it too. Day after day. Then he bought the whole game. I very quickly fell in absolute love. It is crazy how this game encompassed the thrill of discovery so well. You discover new funny looking creatures, new environments, new gameplay phases with different mechanics, but this whole time you experience it with YOUR creature, the species YOU created. I remember loving the Creature stage when I discovered it, I somehow felt, in a way, that this is what it was like to be an animal. And that you had a whole PLANET to explore, along with the creature friends you made along the way. It was simply the innocent, childlike sense of wonder, creatures going about their little adventure exploring their planet. And I was exactly feeling like that too, especially that my life at this time was not that bright, this even emphasized further how much playing this game was a sweet bubble of safety, awe and wonder to little me. The discovery of Tribal stage was fun too, I had never played a game with the top-view where you could control several individuals like this. And even to this day, I am totally under the charming spell of the 'Giddy-Up!' and 'Flowers' songs, respectively the ones that play when you domesticate a wild animal and when you give a present to another tribe. Again, such sweet memories. And the total amazement (and a little bit of fear) when I first saw a spacecraft in the Creature or Tribal stage abducting another creature and simply just leaving. Civ stage felt like a true strategy game to 8-9 year old me, and I loved being able to design the own buildings and vehicles of my species. It was fun, but I was definitely not prepared for what was about to come: namely, the Space stage. I don't think I had much prior knowledge about space before that, except for the basic names of the planets of the solar system. And DAMN, this game delivered. Seeing how beautiful space was, with so many different-looking planets, some with very particular feats (the 'rarities'), some with rarer spice, some with life, and having a whole GALAXY at my reach, it was just absolutely mind-blowing. I'm not even telling you about when I discovered binary systems, let alone black holes, worm holes and quasars. Plus your species' quest to expansion, and how accomplished I felt when I carefully picked a planet, raised it to T3 and placed my first real colony, that was just magical. And the missions, the relationships with other alien spacefaring civilizations, I always felt a bit of anguish when the first contact icon appeared, hoping that it won't be a warmonging or zealot civilization, but I thought that slowly improving your relationship with an alien species to make them your best friends even after a rough first contact, when people don't understand each other yet, was so cool, and it still is. And boy, when I discovered how to use the monolith and the hologram tool, my mind shattered. This sums up how amazed I was when playing this stage, and its whole music score greatly emphasized it, like the delicious icing on the cake that it is. I remember now how afraid of the Grox I was too, I never wanted to approach the center of the galaxy haha.
And I actually made quite a few friends in online Spore, we were chatting under the comments' section of our newest creations, that was my first social media and it was so sweet, sometimes we were naming our creations "Gift for [nickname]", and we really made creations as a gift to our online friends, and I was aged 10-11 too, that was so sweet, I was so ecstatic to connect everytime and to see what had been up with my Spore friends. And the second shock came when I discovered Galactic Adventures haha, I absolutely loved getting my mind to the weirdest and dumbest scenario that I could create, and going through what other's creative minds had birthed.
But yeah, I am writing this 15 years later, I am now finishing my studies (I should write my thesis but I'm writing this instead, priorities you know), I am now able to understand English as well as 2 other languages, and have become an independent, grown-up young adult, and I cannot be thankful enough for all this game has brought me, from my eternal passion of astronomy, my ability to let my creativity speak, to my deep interest in science-fiction and possible scenarii, and my ever-lasting curiosity and interest about biology, animals and nature in general.
If I am lucky enough to have a child one day, I would love to share this gem with them, around the same age I was when I first played. I don't expect them to feel the same way I did back then, but I feel that it appeals to my sense of duty to at least try to share it with them, as it might represent the gorgeous life-changing experience that it was for me and that I still cherish to this day. Or not, but at least I would have tried, and that is totally fine.
And there goes my little time-capsule comment, one day I'll go back to it years later, and be surprised at how much of this is still true :)

[part]

I‘m so happy that after now already 11 years there still hasn’t passed a year where i haven’t played through the game at least 2 or 3 times. My 8 year old self wouldn’t have thought that my now 21 year old self still enjoys a session of good ol spore :)

[MrBump]

This music makes me miss the past. So many more friends, less to worry about, just happier times. I'm happy Spore was always there for me.

[ZIM-dcnv]

Spores the only game I'm emotionally attached to because it made memories that will stay with me forever thanks for being there spore

[catnip]

remember, its 2008 or 2009, or whatever. you get the new game, spore.
remember the first planet you chose?
the first diet you chose?
the first cell you designed?
the first color/pattern you chose?
the first name you gave your creature?
the first time you got killed?
the first time you evolved?
the first time you got killed by an epic cell?
the first time you unlocked something?
the first time you rose on land?
the first time you were amazed by all the parts?
the first time you mated?
the first time you unlocked a part?
the first time you unlocked a skill?
the first time you saw an epic?
the first time you got a teammate?
the first time you died?
the first time you advanced a step? the first time you got into tribal stage?
the first time you lost a member?
the first time you got an ally?
the first time you got into a war?
the first time you concurred a tribe?
the first time you died?
the first time you beat tribal?
the first time you made it to civ stage?
the first time you made an antem?
the first time you made a building?
the first time you made a land vehicle?
the first time you started a war?
the first time you gained a city?
the first time you made a boat?
the first time you lost a city?
the first time you got an ally?
the first time you died?
the first time you got an airplane?
the first time you made an airplane?
the first time you designed a spacehip?
the first time you got into space?
the first time you got on another planet?
the first time you terraformed a planet?
the first time you killed a virus?
the first time you traded?
the first time you declared war on another empire?
the first time you heard of the grox?
the first time you made an ally?
the first time you bought/took over a planet?
the first time you made an epic?
the first time you upgraded your attacks?
the first time you saw the grox?
the first time you died?
the first time you got to the center of the galaxy?

man, i wish you could forget that to replay the game, the memories, *the happiness*

[LoveForYen]

Waves of nostalgia are crashing onto me.

[xxmomyxx]

there will always be someone playing Spore

[_darkblue]

The spore main menu theme can be heard in the background
despite getting the game in late 2017 it is still nostalgic

[kevxjn]

Just imagine to finish my fuel while getting closer to the center of the galaxy... spent 9 years on this game, this song literally makes me cry